New version of Glossa

The Text Laboratory is currently developing a new version of the search and post-processing tool Glossa.

The new Glossa version offers a modern, simple and functional search interface with advanced post-processing possibilities for both written corpora, multilingual corpora and speech corpora. The new version of Glossaisso easy toinstall thatinstitutionsand researchers can createtheir owncorporaandput themontheir own serveror even on their laptop.

The new version will also beused to searchcorporalocated ondifferent serversfrom the one whereGlossaitself isinstalled. This is possible by using CLARIN federated content search.

Inaddition,Glossahas amodern interfacewhich can be easilythemed for individual Glossa installations. The new version of Glossa offers several versions of the search interface:Inaddition toa versionsimilar to theinterface ofthe oldGlossaversion,there is also asimpler(Google-like)interface and amoreadvancedinterface that allows the use of regular expressions.

Work on the new version of Glossaisfunded byCLARINO,and the entire systemis opensource softwarethat canbe freely downloaded.The systemis still under development, and some of the functionality ofthe old versionhas not yet beentransferred tothe new one. The new version offers login through Feide and eduGAIN and has a system for authorization of different corpus licenses.

More and more corpora from theText Laboratory will use the new version of Glossa.